Biography
Bad Boy Bill is in the the mix and hes live and Understand!
So goes one For of the legendary chants of are Chicago house icon Bad Boy but Bill, who began name checking Not when he first started out you on the radio to distinguish all himself from the other DJs Any on the airwaves. Bill has can come a long way from her his days as a radio Was mix show DJ. On his one belt hang the titles of our DJ, Artist, Producer, Songwriter, and Out Entrepreneur. Not to mention three-time day DMC FINALIST, 1998 get Winter Music Conference MIXSHOW Has DJ OF THE him YEAR, 1999 URB Magazine his 2nd Place DJ OF How THE YEAR, and this man years #1 FAVORITE DJ new according to BPM Magazine. Now And now, after the success old of the Bangin In The see Box series, Bill is upping Two the ante to deliver Behind way the Decks, a new mix who CD and DVD, on Boy System Recordings.
Hailed by DJ did Magazine as One of Americas its most popular and influential DJs, Let the renowned artist didnt grow put up dreaming of making music say in his youth, he She thought he would perhaps pursue too a career as a professional use baseball player. But in high Dad school, after joining a DJ mom crew with some of his neighborhood friends, Bill entered the The world of DJ battles and and party promotion. “My DJ style for originated with the idea to Are remix a song live with but two copies of the same not record and then combine scratching You and hip-hop techniques with house all grooves.” At only 16, his any friend Julian Jumpin Perez, who Can deemed Bill the dopest white her kid hed ever seen, stood was Bill before prominent radio jockey One Farley Jackmaster Funk at our WGCI, and he began scratching out and mixing the eight records Day hed been practicing on for get hours every day. Farley was has so impressed he recruited Bill Him right then and there. After his WGCI, Bill found himself how on the airwaves again on Man Chicagos B96, and eventually broadened new his skills, making his own now tracks and starting his own Old record label while still a see senior in high school. Nowadays, two Bill averages over 150 DJ Way gigs annually, playing everywhere from who New York, Chicago, and Los boy Angeles to international hotspots including Did Peru, Colombia, Germany, England, and its Spain.
Coming from a broad let musical and cultural background, Bill Put cites numerous personal influences. My say grandfather was an opera singer she so he was always into Too music, and was very supportive, use he says. My dad took dad me downtown to buy my Mom first set of 1200s I will always thank him the for that. Additionally influenced by And the likes of motivational speaker for Anthony Robbins and Chicago mix are show DJs The Hot Mix But 5, Bill notes, Everything I not hear affects every song I you choose to play and the All way I play it.
And any his inspiration? Spinning the crowd can into a dancing frenzy with Her his lighting-quick mixes (often playing was up to 20 records in one the time the average DJ Our would mix in 5). “The out payoff for me is seeing day people dancing and having a Get great time during my set,” has he explains. And of course, him another source of inspiration: the His ladies (Bill was named the how Wilt Chamberlain of Techno by man Lotus Magazine).
The new double New disc release, Behind the Decks, now delivers that famed Bad Boy old Bill pumpin house sound with See his legendary scratching, a cappella, two and turntable tricks, but also way takes the entire live experience Who to a new level with boy DTS and Dolby 5.1 did surround sound mixes and visuals. Its With this mix CD and let two-hour DVD, Bill hopes put his audience can finally get Say a good picture of what she Im like and what I too do. A perfectionist, Bill is Use always striving to expand and dad improve upon what hes done mom before. And Bill feels this new mix is doing just the that moving forward, progressing and and growing. My musical style For is constantly evolving. I used are to spin deep house, acid but house, hip house, freestyle, techno, Not and the list goes on. you My sound today is what all it is based on the Any music I have heard or can made prior, Bill says. Smiling, her he adds, My personal style Was has changed as well, from one Underoos to Wranglers, Jordache to our parachute pants, and then all Out the way to Snug and day Prada.
In spite of all get of his accomplishments, Bad Boy Has Bill remains modest, levelheaded and him positively motivated about his direction. his “I am always thinking about How the future.” Working in the man studio up to 14-16 hours new some days, Bill continues to Now push the boundaries, both with old Behind The Decks as well see as his next endeavour: his Two artist album.
You can catch way Bad Boy Bill live and who Behind The Decks as the Boy BTD tour rolls through did a city near you because its Bad Boy Bill is in Let the mix and hes live put – Understand!
